quackgrass

noun

quackgrass

noun

Etymology Alteration of quickgrass, a variant of quitchgrass.

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Canada, US Couch grass (a species of grass, Elymus repens).

“These tracks are the straightest shot I know from those two sections of quack grass back there […] to the closest gin mill.”1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 66:

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